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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- The first installment of Micah Curtis' review series on Mobile Suit Gundam's One Year War! This week, we're going to review The 08th MS Team!
First airing in 1996, the 08th MS Team follows Shiro Amada and Aina Sahalin, as they enter the theater of war in Southeast Asia. The two starcrossed lovers learn how terrible the war is in the worst way in a series that's sort of like crossbreeding Platoon and Romeo and Juliet.
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Gouf Custom Scene was epic af.
8th MS Team is definitely among my favorite Gundam animes. Wish more entries took notes from it.
ok but where dafuck i can see it????
I agree fully that 08th MS team is a Romeo and Juliet story at it's core, only with military factions then noble houses. It has a "This is a war" with people from both sides you can root for and hate for being war criminals, but it also has those light-hearted moments with the MS team the show follows, such as hospitalized teammate requesting his own song and the team laughing over it. I love how it is just one unit out of dozens of others. They're not the 1st or the best, but they come together to get the job done and the ending is probably the one of the most heart-warming to any series or OVA with one of the members tracking down the AWOL commander. The themes _Shine in the Storm_ and _Ten Years After_ are some of my favorites in the franchise.
Speaking of fighting games; Hiyama also voices Siegfried in Soul Calibur as well as Link in the game Cube's Soul Calibur II console exclusive fighter as he was OoT's VA.
A few points:
One thing that always irked me about the OYW is that it’s just one year (less than that actually). Considering how long irl conflicts last between much smaller actors, the engineering and corresponding logistics involved as well as time of travel between theaters the OYW should have lasted much longer.
Unnamed Zeon female pilot and her team perfectly illustrate the struggles with Zeon. Honorable soldiers and men fighting for there families forced to fight alongside psychopaths.
Shiro flirting with Kiki is sus but war in those circumstances irl definitely had situations like what was portrayed.
Admiral badass and Norris need there own ova.
Yeah the OYW will probably the only war I called too short in my lifetime
It all depends. The Second Nargorno Karabakh War lasted only 44 days and over 10,000 people died.
Well, in real life, there have been much shorter wars. Israel had a war called the Six Day War, and it lasted, you guessed it, six days. But Israel over the last 70+ has had conflict after conflict. And in U.C. even after the Federation won the One Year War, there were conflicts with the remnants of Zeon, Neo-Zeon, the Sleeves, and etc. The Israel Six Day War is just one example, but I did a search for "shortest wars" and there's multiple that were under two weeks.
it really makes no sense at all. we're supposed to believe that both sides were able to design and do all the R&D work on all the ships mobile suits and mobile armors and field then them in less than a years' time? I mean come on.
Agreed. They made this many quantum leaps in _one year_?
08 MS team is probably my favorite of the whole Gundam franchise
Let's just admit that Gundam Seed was an experiment and Destiny was just reused pencil shavings
Yep and Destiny should’ve never been made
As much as I wanted to be open to it, Seed series holds a place in my toilet … happily
@@MrLoso0204 you’re not Kira Yamato
I remember when this aired on Toonami
I was looking forward to this and you did not disapoint.
8th Ms team is a turning point for me with my love of gundam. my 1st gundam was gundam wing back on toonami. i loved it when i was a kid, but when i watched 8th ms team, my tastes in mecha were changed. between 8th ms and gasaraki and patlabor, i grew a fascination with more grounded mecha.
I love the ground combat, the combined arms warfare, mechs using trees and buildings as cover, and the mostly ranged combat (so it feals like a firefight instead of just giant metal samurai). while there is a kind of cheesy romance plot, its at least not enslaved to the newtype BS of the rest of the franchise (i choose to ignore the last episode of the series. my intros into gundam were 8th and wing, it probably influenced my distaste for newtypes because they simply weren't there to muddle up the war drama. around this same time i would see "war in the pocket", yet another great piece of gundam media.
its unfortunate that most of the rest of gundam barely touches these aspects i love so much. I literally hate so many of the tropes that define gundam that were absent of 8th and warpcoket. some of those annoying tropes are in wing, but ive found that the nostalgia goggles expired when i tried watching the series again. it wasn't as great as i remember it being and those tropes dont help (although ill still look at it fondly for introducing me to mecha).
I just wish there was less super powers, less moody and whiny kids, less super duper flashy gundams, less space combat, and less melee....which is probably expecting too much form this franchise.
But rant aside, i am looking forward to your take on th rest of the OYW.
Amuro was treated well? They literally used him as expendable bait during the war(they didn't care he only lived by chance. His success was a side effect, not the plan) and then put in house arrest after the war because they wanted to study him, but didn't want to risk him POSSIBLY siding against them...just on the basis of him being a newtype.
In that regard it is relatively because the federation could not be able to dissect him or put him in a body bag.
The most underrated gundam imo, the second half was my only gripe with it and it’s great to have that information on the director change, I actually found this through melolink I love the old mobile suit and chars counter attack and I grew up on gundam wing but this series has become my favorite because of the animation style and the attention to detail in the mech sequences, I really wish they had more of a budget for the full 26 episodes this deserves, I will say that the double ending song does bug me but luckily I have the option of skipping ahead
Ah, yes, I too like to think most of the last episode didn't happen, just the happy ending for Shiro and Aina. That's really the only downside I have the series is that most of that last episode really didn't have a point in relation to the story we'd just went through.
I don’t know what you are talking about the last episode of 08th MA Team was awesome.
The Shuddering Mountain Part Two was an excellent ending for the show.
Awesome looking forward covrage of the one year war. Great start with 8th MS team def my fav mainline gundam series Shiro is pretty relatable guy and Norris is a badass. Id love to see stories of underrated MS units likes THE E.F's White Dingo and Zeons Midnight Fenrir.
Omg you are the only review I have heard mention Romio and Juliet. Get it yo!
Now we're talkin my favorite Gundam
The fight with the Gouf Custom is the best fight in Gundam
14:40 holy crap it's Dr Wily!
Yeah , he looks really similar . I Guess Revil is Light than .
The only gunpla I own (or intend to own) are the 08th ms team and a few zakus.
Nobuyuki has also voiced both Link and Yoshimitsu in Soul Calibur 2.
I hope we get physical translations of the 08th MS Team novel some day
Hope you review L-Gaim one day Micah. Probably because you mentioned it's "Tomino Star Wars". I'd like to hear your opinion on it (watched it myself and loved it).
Speaking of 08th, I personally don't like the romance that much. Probably because it's just a bit too melodramatic for my taste. Rest of it was great, would've likely been in my personal top 10 had it not been for the romance.
OYW X Generation Kill would be bloody epic. I'd love to see that.
I adore Gundam. The One Year War and the majority of the content surrounding it I love. Specifically 08th Mobile Suit Team.
Through Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon(a game from 2001) is something I played when I was three(when it came out) and thus the One Year War had a special place in my heart.
The o8th ms team was my intro to the uc team line
Love myself the Gouf Custom first Zeon gunpla I ever built, plus far better romance than in 0083.
13:51 Micah, I think it's spoiler time:
SPOILER:
In the novelization of the 08th MS Team, Kiki is actually raped by some Federation soldiers and ultimately as a result commits suicide by biting her tongue.
I know, it's disgusting and I was shocked that it was written without any a hint or foreshadowing.
I'm aware of it, but didn't wanna go over it because the novelization's not canon. Though, there is a fun fact.
The guy who wrote the novelization? He's the writer for The Witch from Mercury.
Wait, didn’t the Feddies only down that hospital ship after Alina’s shitheel brother broke the ceasefire?
The e.f.f.s commander he didn’t even care if there was a ceasefire because he was scared being the laughing stock of the e.f.f.s especially he mentions operation star one is getting closer
I love the video
So will this series be covering just the one year war and if so does the Delaz Conflict/Operation Stardust count as it was carried out by Zeon Veterans and is the bridge between the One Year War and the Gryps Conflict?
Errr what i mean is will it be the finale or bridge if you intend to cover the Post One Year War conflicts.
Since 0083 is a few years later, I didn't include it, but I'll probably do a review of 0083 at some point in the near future.
@@BigMicahC Sweet. Cant wait to hear what your thoughts are.
I saw this when it came out on cartoon network and toonami.
thiers some things I like about the 8th ms team but as you said yourself it is Gundam Romeo Juliet which I just didn't like tbh plus Shiro having super luck in some parts was meh
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!!!
you want your platoon or apocalypse now gundam? gundam thunderbolt
Which is a worse take:
Zeon did nothing wrong
Or
Griffinth did nothing wrong?
That's actually a really hard question. Zeon during the war commits SEVERAL genocides, but Griffith during the course of Berserk (along with the Godhand) basically fuck up all of reality. Plus what he did to the Band of the Hawk (and Casca especially) feels a LOT more personal.
I'll think about it.
@@BigMicahC easy answers are no fun
I've watched this twice, but i could never binge watch it. I dont know what it is exactly, but i don't like it, it's one of my least favorite gundam stories when it comes to characters. The mecha action and Norris Packard is the only saving grace for me. On my rewatch I just kind of put it on the background. Only watching the action.
You say its underated, but in the communities I'm in. So many people love it that I think its overrated.
I think its overrated, most "fans" hype about it all the time for it being "grounded" and realistic, People complain about GMs being made out of explodium in other UC shows but the GMs in this show doesnt even make a single kill (except for the sniper one), yet ive never seen someone complain about this.
Also shiro amada's plot armor is stronger than ever.
Googles advertising worked for once
Vietnam Gundam.
08th ms team is definitely one of the favorite shows of real gundam fans. A show the woke Witch from mercury posers have never seen. LMAO at those fake fans. 🤣🤣🤣
I absolutely loathe this Gundam series . The Romero and Juliet plotline was extremely boring also uninteresting.
The characters were awful, only characters I liked were Joshua and kiki
The character designs were good
Overall this is my second most hated Gundam series ever. I think it's a solid 3